I think it was Mr. Newton who was a DVM for many years before taking on the cattle persona in a latter career. Mr. Ward, it was one or the other or both of you who made the point about a non-linear response. I think what you're asking for is flexibility.
You made remarks about many and varied mini-ecosystems. Indeed, we're not only talking about Alberta here. We're talking about all of Canada, the variety. The committee will be travelling to the east coast in the near future, where the issues will be very different from the ones here, although there will be commonalities.
When you talk about a non-linear response, I think you're talking about flexibility. Earlier, one of the presenters said that a national conservation plan implies some form of rigidity, and preferred the concept of a national conservation framework, where the objectives may be common but the applications may be different, allowing people to choose from a suite of environmental objectives that may apply in one environment and not in another. Is that really what you're driving at with your non-linear approach?